by slag
Perhaps the greatest curse gift of the digital age is the ease and convenience it makes in repurchasing (and theoretically replaying) games you've already played . Whether that be through bundles, trades, gifts & giveaways, steam sales, or even just the fact the video game store is now in your house and even on your phone.
GoG and Humble Bundle are particularly nefarious useful in this manner.
So in honor of the Final Fantasy Xiii Trilogy coming to Steam and my almost guaranteed repurchase of said series, I make this list to scare myself into realizing just how often I seem to be doing this. Oh my poor $. At least I have enough self restraint to usually hold off for steep sales. Rarely do I ever buy games at full or even half price.
Games intentionally purchased as gifts do not count. This, kids, is why backlogs are bad for you.
Houston, I think I have a problem.
Edit: Oh God there's more. Three additions to the list.
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I only discovered this just today, in the process of making this list. Apparently I've had this game for years as part of a Star Wars PC game collection I never touched. Which means my excitement over getting a good deal for a game "I've never had but always wanted to play" on Steam was totally baseless. Fffffffffuuu*k
Easily the best repurchase I ever made. This was a nice way to get to replay some old Zeldas on modern (for the time) hardware and it was very cool to get some new content. Link to the Past was a strange and notable omission from the package. Maybe someday I'll actually beat Adventure of Link, perhaps when I inevitably purchase it for the third time.
And now for the worst. Once upon a time, a repurchase in except very few circumstances was almost certainly a mistake on my part. This game is the one that perhaps makes me cringe the most, in that I had purchased again at full price not realizing I already had it but never had played it (or MP2 for that matter). That was when I sat myself down and admitted to myself that my backlog fueled by gamestop used game deals was finally out of control. I still haven't even started MP3 yet....... or MP2. :( Easily my most expensive and egregious mistake to date.
(thrice or more) I don't know how many more times Nintendo can hook me to repurchase the game that cemented me as a "gamer", but I bet there's a few more times yet.
(thrice?) Like the original Mario bros, this one has hooked me on multiple platforms for nostalgia reasons. It probably will again.
(Thrice) Square is particularly bad, I mean good, about repackaging old classics in a way that's just enough to hook me again. Even though I'm more of a VI man, IV seems to be the one I rebuy and actually replay.
It came packaged with II on PS1 which I wanted to try, the real II not the good II (aka IV). Arguably I should have just replayed 1 instead.
(Twice) Squared once more. My GBA copy is actually still sealed in the shrink wrap and everything. I wonder if that's worth anything.
I can't stand this game! Ugh the card battles, the deck building grinding, the horrifically boring procedurally generated maps. But being the rigidly foolish person I can be sometimes, I refuse to let myself play KH 2 until I beat it. So I bought the Ps2 version on sale when it released in hopes of finally finishing the job. Nope still hate it, maybe even more now! D@mn it.
Playing TP on the Wii It didn't take me long to say "This plays like and graphically looks like a gamecube game! I bet I would enjoy it 1000% more without motion controls". I was right.